Cardinals Fly Past Eagles 6-4

Apr 07, 2008

Cardinals Fly Past Eagles
6-4CUA scores three in the fourth quarter

4/7/2008

WASHINGTON - The Catholic University men's lacrosse team won its
second straight Monday with a 6-4 victory over the Eastern
University Eagles (3-8). The teams went into halftime tied
but a big fourth quarter from the Cards sealed the win. CUA
is now 6-5 on the season.

After a scoreless first quarter, Eastern took a 1-0 lead early
in the second on a man-up goal. Two minutes later Jimmy
Sinnott (Blue Bell, Pa./LaSalle) made it 1-1 off of a pass from
Mike DiGiesi (Cherry Hill, N.J./St Joseph's Prep). However,
the Eagles hit one more shot in the half but with 4:21 remaining
John Volpe (Newton, Pa./Notre Dame) found the back of the cage
taking the assist from Mike Groh (Walpole, Mass./Xaverian Bros) to
knot it at two.

The teams traded goal in the third quarter with Eastern once
again striking first but the Cards answering back. Mike
Scotto (Belmar, N.J./St Rose) tied it at three thanks to an
unassisted tally at the three-minute mark. With the scoring
wavering back and forth, the Cardinals broke it open in the
fourth. Scotto notched his second goal of the day early on
and despite Eastern's quick reply it was CUA's game to win.
In the final nine minutes Kyle Brant (Silver Spring, Md./St.
John's) hit a shot off of the assist from Scotto and Sinnott added
his second of the day during a man-up situation to make the final
6-4.

The Cardinals controlled the offensive game with 26 shots to
Eastern's 11 and a 23-19 advantage in ground balls. CUA was
also 8-13 on face-offs. Scotto led the Cards with three
points for the game while DiGiesi and Sinnott each added two.

The Cards will host USMMA on Saturday in a Landmark Conference
match-up.